Children’s Worship: Children’s worship helps children ages 3 through 2nd grade explore Bible units through hands on, age appropriate, experiential activities that are designed to engage them while also instilling faith formation. We meet upstairs every Sunday following the Time with Children. If this is your child’s first visit, please let us know if there are any food allergies as a snack is served. Today the children close out their unit on the life of Moses. It’s been an exciting adventure from Baby Moses in the basket, the Burning Bush, the Exodus and the Parting of the Red Sea, the Ten Commandments to the final arrival in the Promised Land.

Flowers & Fellowship Food Sign-up: Please consider signing up for flowers, fellowship food, or both in the coming months. New sign-up sheets are in the narthex. If you have any questions please contact Regina Montgomery at regina.montgomery@vanderbilt.edu.

Welcome to East Brentwood

To Our Members: East Brentwood gladly welcomes first-time and returning visitors. By introducing yourself and sharing a warm greeting, you express the hospitality of our congregation. Please share a smile and welcoming word to those around you.

To Our Guests: We offer education and fellowship opportunities in the mornings and evenings for children, youth and adults. Please see the Calendar of Events for dates and times. Interested in joining East Brentwood? Speak to John Hilley or Ashley Purcell.

Our Mission

East Brentwood Presbyterian Church is a community church made up of a loving, welcoming family of believers in honest conversation with God. We seek to emulate the ministry of Jesus through compassionate service, with stimulating and relevant exploration of God’s Word, and by sharing that Word and God’s many blessings with our neighbors in Middle Tennessee and around the world.

Announcements

PYG and 608 will continue with opportunities for service and fellowship throughout the summer. If you have any questions, please contact Kelly McConnell, Youth Director, at ebpcyouth@comcast.net.

MUSIC IN THE GROVE is a great opportunity to showcase our beautiful grounds and our wonderful church family so please let all of your friends and family know about this great event and bring them out for a great afternoon of music and fun! All church members, preschool families and Brentwood neighbors and friends are invited to bring blankets, chairs, and a picnic and enjoy this fabulous concert event from 3 pm to 6 pm on Saturday, July 25th. The concert lineup includes soul/gospel artist Jason Eskridge, bluegrass band Fireball Mail with our very own, newly appointed music director and piano virtuoso Nate Strasser. This promises to be a fantastic event, and we hope all our church and preschool families will come out to support these amazing musicians and our church. We are looking for volunteers to help with this event. Please sign up in the narthex or contact the church office if you are available and interested. For more information about the event and our great musicians, go to www.musicinthegrove.com.

EBPC Young Families: this month, we will not meet a second time for a service project, but will instead have an ongoing new/gently used book drive benefiting Book 'Em, an organization that distributes children's books to underprivileged Nashville children. There is a donation box in the Narthex that will be there through July 31st.

Praise and Prayers

† Prayers for Joanna Roberts as she is healing from a recent shoulder injury. She is currently recovering in Bloomington, IN.

† Praise for a successful surgery for a malignant brain tumor for Betty Garrique, cousin of Bill Wolfe, and prayers for her as she is beginning chemotherapy treatments.

† Prayers for comfort and support for the lives that have been touched by the shooting of nine people at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17th.

† Prayers for the church members of Mt. Zion AME Church in Greeleyville, SC that lost its building due to arson and the other churches that were lost under similar circumstances.

† Praise for the safe return of Doug Pennington.

† Prayers for Lily Paris as she continues her treatment for cancer, fighting infection, and a successful surgery this week.

† Prayers for Sam, Susan, and Annie Paris as they walk with Lily through this journey.

† Prayers for Rob Moser’s father who is battling cancer.

† Prayers for the planning and execution of Music In The Grove and that it would be successful.

†Prayers for Megan Johnson, sister-in-law of Elizabeth and Dave Johnson.

†Prayers for healing and comfort requested by Leanna Pound (EBPC Nursery) on behalf of Talan Williams, an 8-year-old, who has bone cancer and is undergoing treatment.

†Prayers for caregivers of family members and for the unspoken burdens and worries loved ones are facing.

† Prayers for the 2015 graduates.

If you have a prayer request or celebration that you would like to share, please contact Ralph Comer, Congregational Care moderator by email: recomer49@aol.com or phone: 615.545.5938.

EBPC

East Brentwood Presbyterian Church is a community church made up of a loving, welcoming family of believers in honest conversation with God. We seek to emulate the ministry of Jesus through compassionate service, with stimulating and relevant exploration of God’s Word, and by sharing that Word and God’s many blessings with our neighbors in Middle Tennessee and around the world.